The Women Who Fly

The Women Who Fly - Paperback

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The Women Who Fly

The Women Who Fly - Paperback

by Aisha Lumumba
$33.73
Sale price  $33.73 Regular price 

Book Overview

The Women Who Fly continues my idea of uplifting women through my art. This series evoked a strong desire to tell the story of women who have suffered, fallen down, gotten back up and soared. The idea for this exhibit came to me with "Only Women Have Wings" back in 2009. I put it on the back burner until "And The Angels Cried" came forth out of the horrendous shooting death of the Emanuel Nine in a Charleston, South Carolina church. The flame was ignited inside me to create an entire series of quilts exclaiming that we get knocked down but we don't stay down. After creating "Leap", the quilts started rolling in. Dancers after dancers, then different kinds of dancers, all came to me. The wings and the outfits were just as important as the stories that went along with the quilts.Finally it was a memorable series with audacious stories and beautiful quilts, plus a bonus quilt pattern.

ISBN9780991130542
Author Aisha Lumumba
PublisherOriginal Bed Art Quilts
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages130
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Aisha Lumumba

Aisha Lumumba has set out to create self-affirming positive images of African American people and their lives through art. She is an African American artist that unashamedly creates African American art. What a novel idea! Aisha Lumumba longs to create art that expresses the African and African American experience from the perspective of anAfrican American. "I want to tell my own story", Ms.Lumumba affirms. Ms. Lumumba appeared on TV One's Living With Soul, WSB's People to People twice, and has been interviewed by various other media affiliates. She has published two cookbooks, a novel and was featured in A Time, A Season: A Visual Tribute to Oprah Winfrey spearheaded by Janelle Dowell, I Now Have A Ribbon by Ken Gehle, and Artistic Expressions by Quilters of Color by Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild. She has installed Quilt Exhibits in many places, namely 5 consecutive years at The Atrium on Auburn Art Gallery Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham Public Library Art Gallery Birmingham, Alabama; and the National Black Arts Festival Atlanta, Georgia. She has also exhibited in many quilt and art shows throughout the country: California, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and of course Georgia.She is a full-time artist possessing memberships in Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild, Black Art in America, and African Americans for the Arts. Her quilts are now a part of the private collections of many individual collections, including those of Ambassador Andrew Young, Mrs. Valerie Jackson, Dr. Stephanie Jolly, Ms. Brenda Banks, Ms. Woodie Persons, Jualynne E. Dodson, and President & Mrs. Barack Obama.

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